Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
A man is not moral because he is obedient through fear or ignorance. Morality lives in the realm of perceived obligation...
Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.
If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish – if a little more enlightened, religion would perish.
The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.
Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought.
Secularism is a religion, a religion that is understood. It has no mysteries, no mumblings, no priests, no ceremonies, no falsehoods, no miracles, and no persecutions.
Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind?
There is the same difference between talent and genius that there is between a stone mason and a sculptor.
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
The triumph of justice is the only peace.
We rise by lifting others.
Either god should have written a book to fit my brain, or he should have made my brain to fit his book.
If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.
A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field.
Christianity has such a contemptible opinion of human nature that it does not believe a man can tell the truth unless frightened by a belief in god. No lower opinion of the human race has ever been expressed.
It is told that the great Angelo, in decorating a church, painted some angels wearing sandals. A cardinal looking at the picture said to the artist: Whoever saw angels with sandals? Angelo answered with another question: Whoever saw an angel barefooted?
Honest investigation is utterly impossible within the pale of any church, for the reason, that if you think the church is right you will not investigate, and if you think it wrong, the church will investigate you.